Finspång Municipality

Finspång Municipality

Infobox_Kommun2
fullname=Finspångs kommun


county=Östergötland County
province=Östergötland
capital=Finspång


arearank=94th
area=1,221.74
arealand=1,061.57
populationrank=116th
population=20,812
densityrank=173rd
populationdensity=19.6
website=http://www.finspong.se/
footnotes=Area and population as of December 31, 2006

Finspång Municipality ("Finspångs kommun") is a municipality in Östergötland County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Finspång, with some 13,000 inhabitants.

Nature

The municipality refers to itself as Sweden's most lake-dense municipality, with at least 170 named lakes. The municipality boasts that one can swim in a different lake each day of the year as there are 366 different ones.

History

Finspång is a traditional industrial city. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannon and cannon balls was supervised. The industry was to continue for 300 years under supervision of the Dutch-stemming family De Geer. By Louis Gerhard De Geer (1622-1695), the Finspång Castle was constructed, and around it industries and an orangery developed into the city Finspång. Today the two main industrial areas are those of turbines and copper processing.

Localities

*Finspång (seat)
*Rejmyre
*Lotorp
*Sonstorp
*Falla
*Hällestad
*Ljusfallshammar
*Grytgöl
*Igelfors
*Borggård
*Butbro
*Hävla
*Bränntorp
*Byle
*Kolstad
*Lämmetorp
*Lövlund
*Prästköp

Twin towns

Finspång Municipality has formal twin town treaties with three cities. These treaties were signed in 1967.

*flagicon|Germany Stromberg, Germany
*flagicon|Belgium Yvoir, Belgium
*flagicon|France Givet, France

There are today no contacts with neither Stromberg or Givet, and was also broken with Yvoir until reestablished in 1997.

Finspång also have (unformally) established cooperation with seven other cities:
*Dzierzgoń, Poland
*Finsterwalde, Germany
*Joutsa, Finland
*Nordborg, Denmark
*Salaspil, Latvia
*Sibiu, Romania
*Stade, Germany

(Source and more information: [http://www.finspong.se/vanorter/] sv icon)

Notable people born in Finspång

*Pär Arvidsson (*1960) - butterfly swimmer
*Liselotte Neumann (*1966) - professional golfer
*Dan Swanö (*1973) - musician and music producer

ee also

*Finspång Fief Hundred

External links

* [http://www.finspong.se/ Finspång Municipality] - Official site


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